Actually that was not intended to be directed at you specifically. I
got a message from someone that wanted to know about crons and laptops
and how to get them to run if you leave the laptop turned off. So I
thought to share that same knowledge with 'the whole gang'.
Jerry
On May 07, 2004, at 1:05 AM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> The upshot for myself was that the cron tabs were not necessary to run.
>
> I've got more space wasted in the PDFs that Safari insists on
> downloading
> to open up in Preview than the cron-tab would save me. By a factor of
> 10 :)
>
> Still, nothing against anacron. Just seems to be something that has
> been
> blown out of proportion.
>
> Hen
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> Recently there was some discussion about how to edit cron tabs to run
>> the system admin tasks at a time of the user's choosing rather than
>> the
>> times Apple chose for us all. The upshot of that discussion was to get
>> MacJanitor and just remember to use it. But, the larger question of
>> how
>> to run cron tasks at other times or on portables was left unanswered.
>> In the *nix world many folks use Anacron. This has been recently
>> ported
>> to OS-X and is available at:
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/anacron.html
>>
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
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